Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

NateWatchesCoolMovies A Single Shot is one of the most overlooked films of 2013, gaining no recognition or praise in its limited release. Too bad, because it's a scorcher. Somewhat of a throwback to the swampy backwoods thrillers of the 70's, it has a deadbeat, moonshine soaked violent veneer of scum and sadness that packs a punch. Sam Rockwell, pretty much fantastic in everything he does, plays simple minded John Moon, a rural game hunter who is really unlucky. His luck goes from worse to catastrophic when he mistakes a young girl fleeing through the woods as a deer, and puts a fatal bullet in her. As happens in these pulpy danger fests, she happens to be the girlfriend of sadistic backwater criminal Waylon, played by Jason Isaacs. Isaacs has a knack for chameleon esque, diverse roles, and here the Irishman sinks his fangs into this deranged, vengeful beast with scary enthusiasm and bloody intent. Although the film is a dirty, depressing downward spiral, it's crafted with a beautiful, mournful tone, with each supporting character Moon meets contributing to his trajectory of misfortune. Jeffrey Wright is great as his raging alcoholic buddy, spending his scenes literally sprawled in a 90 proof stupor and mumbling his lines through a curtain of booze. William H. Macy turns in a genre suited turn as everyone's favourite archetype, the cheery, polite, ruthlessly corrupt sleaze bag lawyer. Joe Anderson makes a scrappy, hot headed young thug, with Kelly Reilly and Ted Levine giving welcome cameos. It's a rough, sorrowful portrait of dead end country living marred by deep seated corruption and violence, and inevitable tragedy. It's also a fun, stylish, earnestly made genre pulp fest. Definitely worth checking out.

David Arnold Hunter John Moon (Sam Rockwell) is out (illegally) hunting for deer when he mistakenly shoots a young woman. Obviously not being able to call the authorities and list it as a hunting accident, he hides her body in a nearby dumpster bin. He also finds a small case full of money and decides to keep it. Unfortunately, as time goes by, he realises that someone is tormenting him and sending clues that they know what he has done so what was supposed to have been a forgotten incident by Moon, turns into a cat & mouse chase for survival.A Single Shot is an EXTREMELY slow going movie which is such a pity because it doesn't take long for the main incident to happen. Once this happened I thought it would start to pick up but unfortunately it didn't. I mean I know there has to be character & story development but even that is slow to develop. If it's cat & mouse then it must be one hell of a slow cat because nothing of note really happens until about an hour in, and even then it still doesn't pick up.The story itself is a good one, but it was just played out so slowly without going anywhere. I usually don't mind slow going movies if I can get into them, but this one I couldn't get into at all and what didn't help in that regard was that I could hardly understand a single word being said, even when my volume was up high. I mean it's hard to understand a lot of the dialogue when the actors have their jaws clenched together and speak through their lips in a southern State accent. Add this together with nothing much happening and it was 2 hours of boredom. Such a shame because it has a very, very decent cast as well (Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Ted Levine, Jason Isaacs) but unfortunately even they couldn't do anything to make this film more interesting.A Single Shot should be given a single viewing and nothing more.

witster18 Similar to "Winter's Bone", "Fargo", Freidkin's "Killer Joe" or Scott Cooper's "Out of the Furnace" and "Crazy Heart". "A Single Shot" fits right in the middle of that strong list of dark thrillers.Its finest characteristic is its thrill factor, which has trouble looming around every corner, put together with sharp direction, amiable camera work, and tense scoring.I'm sure this film is taking a hit from some picking apart certain aspects in the plot, but it's much less of "it couldn't happen", and more likely "people not liking the way it happens", and surely some will loath the beautifully symbolic ending, where the lead is literally suffocating under the weight of it all. Couldn't have ended any better, could barely be any better in general. Easily one of the best films I've seen this year. The only thing I did before writing this review, was leave this title on my latest B Movie Marathon list for later reference.There's a bit of sloppy speech from Jeffrey Wright in the ladder third that could have used some polishing, but that's honestly my only gripe with this great little sleeper.SOme might call this a "Slow-burner", but I found it to be intense and gripping from the opening minute till the final credit sequence. I was glued. Highly Recommend this one, but that recommendation comes with a bit of a user warning for gore, drug use, sexuality, and many blissfully scary moments.Bout time. Is it just me, or do you have to rent 30 films at the redbox to get one of these? bring back video stores! You'll like this if you liked:*see all films listed above. Hope it helps. It ain't Disney!77/100THe film is far from perfect, but Rockwell and the ever-present tension of the film, along with some nice supporting roles, make this solid.

Liam Blackburn Yup, that would best describe the overall feeling of this movie. It reminded lot of OUt of The Furnace....but this actually has realness and good metaphors going on. It basically comes down to the main character Jon digging a grave for this frozen corpse of a woman who he had been storing in his freezer. He did kill her...yes...by accident...but that isn't the point. The point is, that the woman corpse symbolizes his soon to be ex-wife. He just can't let go....Even after he kills her he can't let it go. Then there's the deer, the deer symbolizes his son? maybe? The horse and the girl....The girl who wants to be with Jon. The girl who gets caught in the crossfire of Jon's ill-gotten cash grab. The girl who's Dad owns the farm that Jon used to own. THere is just so much imagery and metaphors going on that it would take a while to analyze it. Since this was based off a book, the credit has to go to the writer there. The movie itself wasn't about the plot, it was about the atmosphere. They created that atmosphere amazingly well.